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Future Spandex

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57 feature instances
63 referencing feature instances

Future Spandex	type	FeatureClass
Future Spandex	label	Future Spandex
Future Spandex	page	FutureSpandex
Future Spandex	comment	You want to instantly show a setting to be futuristic, or show that a character in present day has access to technology magnitudes more advanced than the norm, what do you do? Why, outfit characters in spandex costumes, of course! Nothing says "future" like a character wearing a skin-tight outfit made of stretchable synthetic fibers, especially if you add some cool accessories or Tron Lines for added effect! While the material may not be identified as such (in-universe, it can be anything from high-tech polymers to even a coating of liquid nanomachines), the visual effect is pretty much the same. It's also a good way to provide a little fanservice. This is a sort of Truth in Television: Spandex, Lycra and similar stretchable, form-fitting clothing material are a pretty recent innovation when compared to other fabrics, and its many distinctive properties (sheer fit, aero- or hydrodynamics, lightweight, body support) have made it a favorite as a technological solution to solve problems that can be caused by less form-fitting clothes in a variety of physical activities. While there's often overlap, this is not the same as Super Hero tights. While superhero tights are used to emphasize the physicality of the hero, Future Spandex is used to emphasize his technological superiority. This trope tends to go hand-in-hand with We Will Have Perfect Health in the Future (no love-handles interfering with the lines of those sleek little outfits!) but WALLâ€¢E combined it with Big, Fat Future to great effect, where the stretchy jumpsuits made the human characters look infantile and helpless. Latex Spacesuit and Spy Catsuit are both SubTropes. A Sister Trope to (and often overlaps with) Space Clothes and Superheroes Wear Tights. See also Spandex, Latex, or Leather. Compare Crystal Spires and Togas. Contrast Sensual Spandex, for when spandex is used for a whole other purpose entirely. Examples
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Future Spandex / int_1861f45b	type	Future Spandex
Future Spandex / int_1861f45b	comment	Terran Ghosts in Starcraft and its sequel are elite commando agents who wear this sort of outfit, albeit liberally embellished with spy gewgaws. This is in contrast with run-of-the-mill troopers, who wear incredibly blocky Power Armor with Shoulders of Doom instead.
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Future Spandex / int_1f8462f7	type	Future Spandex
Future Spandex / int_1f8462f7	comment	Spider-Man 2099: Spoofed in vol 2. When Miguel, who is presently trapped in the modern day, is confronted by Liz Allan having worked out he's not who he says he is, he reveals he's from the future, and his holographic assistant Layla gives him an appropriately "futuristic" looking outfit that looks ridiculous. Once Liz is gone, Miguel asks Layla what that was all about, and she explains that she figured that was what Liz would expect someone from the future to dress like.
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Future Spandex / int_21e4ee5c	type	Future Spandex
Future Spandex / int_21e4ee5c	comment	Buck Rogers in the 25th Century First season. Colonel Wilma Deering (Creator Erin Gray) and Buck Rogers sometimes wore spandex jumpsuits.
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Future Spandex / int_2eb5ea5f	type	Future Spandex
Future Spandex / int_2eb5ea5f	comment	The heroines of Dirty Pair wear very skimpy and tight battle suits. In the original light novel, they also wear transparent bodysuits that work as combination body armor and spacesuits.
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Future Spandex / int_3b05a9de	type	Future Spandex
Future Spandex / int_3b05a9de	comment	The Power Rangers Time Force versions are a more down-to-earth futurish uniform and are perhaps something you'd expect a police force in Star Wars to wear. (Fanservice duty goes to Nadira.)
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Future Spandex / int_3b11106f	type	Future Spandex
Future Spandex / int_3b11106f	comment	Flash Gordon (1980). Both General Kala and Princess Aura wear lycra/spandex costumes.
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Future Spandex / int_3d22c14b	type	Future Spandex
Future Spandex / int_3d22c14b	comment	Nena Trinity's season one outfit in Mobile Suit Gundam 00. Not to forget her brother Johann, who wears a midriff-baring top and short shorts. Also Tieria's in some shots.
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Future Spandex / int_3d22c68b	type	Future Spandex
Future Spandex / int_3d22c68b	comment	Mobile Suit Gundam ZZ's Puru Two, although not too noticeable since she doesn't have a figure to begin with. If she did, it would likely be similar to a Plugsuit.
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Future Spandex / int_40e44a7a	type	Future Spandex
Future Spandex / int_40e44a7a	comment	In the Judge Dredd film, Judges wear a lycra/spandex bodysuit undergarment under their body armor.
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Future Spandex / int_44127c7c	type	Future Spandex
Future Spandex / int_44127c7c	comment	Power Rangers: They embody this trope. In every season, beginning to end, the rangers always wear skintight spandex suits. These suits are so tight, in fact, some of the male (and female, at least until Disney took the rights from Saban) rangers have bulges, and the female rangers wouldn't even need to wear a bra due to the tightness. In Mirai Sentai Timeranger, the Rangers' unmorphed uniforms are, perhaps because the aesthetics of a full thousand years in the future probably would be quite alien to us, are random-colors-on-gray skin-tight outfits, more Fanservicey than the Ranger suits. (Thinner material, perhaps?) The Power Rangers Time Force versions are a more down-to-earth futurish uniform and are perhaps something you'd expect a police force in Star Wars to wear. (Fanservice duty goes to Nadira.) Lampshaded in Power Rangers RPM, where the rangers complain to Dr. K — the person who helped give them their powers — for designing their "Covert Infantry Bio-Suits" with "bright red, yellow, and blue spandex". Turns out that Dr. K is particularly defensive about that last bit — it's a "self-assembling nanofiber formed with an intracellular shape memory alloy," not spandex.
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Future Spandex / int_442fe0ab	type	Future Spandex
Future Spandex / int_442fe0ab	comment	In the final battle of Gemini Man, the protagonists are attacked by a Super-Soldier version of the cloned Junior, who is wearing some kind of flexible head-to-toe body armor (he can Feel No Pain, explaining why such armor would be effective despite the blunt force trauma of the bullets hitting him).
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Future Spandex / int_44fe781e	type	Future Spandex
Future Spandex / int_44fe781e	comment	Female plugsuits from Neon Genesis Evangelion. Remember, Clothes Make Teh Rei. Especially Asuka's TEST suit (80% of the torso is transparent) from Rebuild 2.0.
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Neon Genesis Evangelion	hasFeature	Future Spandex / int_44fe781e
Future Spandex / int_49eee326	type	Future Spandex
Future Spandex / int_49eee326	comment	Nintendo Power: Worn by Fara Phoenix in the 1993 comics. It's a rather tight fit.
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Future Spandex / int_4ab17360	type	Future Spandex
Future Spandex / int_4ab17360	comment	From Inuyasha, Sango's fighting outfit include this under her body armor.
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Inuyasha (Manga)	hasFeature	Future Spandex / int_4ab17360
Future Spandex / int_4c213722	type	Future Spandex
Future Spandex / int_4c213722	comment	Sam Fisher wears a similar (albeit completely black) sneaking suit in Splinter Cell, at least until the later games when he wears more conventional clothing.
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Future Spandex / int_51455a02	type	Future Spandex
Future Spandex / int_51455a02	comment	Claymore outfits are this plus light armor, even the new ones after the time skip don't stray far from the original concept.
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Future Spandex / int_6196490	type	Future Spandex
Future Spandex / int_6196490	comment	The combat gear used by Section 9 from Ghost in the Shell is this plus tactical vests. Especially noticeable on the Major.
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Future Spandex / int_68481c58	type	Future Spandex
Future Spandex / int_68481c58	comment	Similar to the above, Lina from Blade Strangers wears such an outfit to reinforce her futuristic-cyberspace theme. Ditto Exiva.
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Future Spandex / int_69085a0	type	Future Spandex
Future Spandex / int_69085a0	comment	Macross is an exception until Macross Frontier. In the earlier shows, like Super Dimension Fortress Macross, Pilots wore space suits that, while less bulky than modern suits, were still not quite "form-fitting."
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Future Spandex / int_6a4bddd6	type	Future Spandex
Future Spandex / int_6a4bddd6	comment	Iron Man: In more recent years, Tony Stark usually wears something along the lines of this under his regular civilian attire. Justified in that it's meant to interface with his Iron Man suit. Part of his Extremis upgrade meant that this "inner suit" was kept within his bones and he could manifest it at any time. This inner suit is also present in his The Avengers: Earth's Mightiest Heroes incarnation.
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Future Spandex / int_6a67a019	type	Future Spandex
Future Spandex / int_6a67a019	comment	In Mirai Sentai Timeranger, the Rangers' unmorphed uniforms are, perhaps because the aesthetics of a full thousand years in the future probably would be quite alien to us, are random-colors-on-gray skin-tight outfits, more Fanservicey than the Ranger suits. (Thinner material, perhaps?)
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Future Spandex / int_6bdc1b01	type	Future Spandex
Future Spandex / int_6bdc1b01	comment	DC One Million: The Crisis Crossover has Superhero Spandex that is also Future Spandex — the present-day heroes note that their future counterparts' costumes are shiny, seamless and even more formfitting, and wonder what they're made from.
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Future Spandex / int_7250db7f	type	Future Spandex
Future Spandex / int_7250db7f	comment	Megaforce has these as combat gear, presumably as they're a Badass Army using "the most powerful weapons science can devise". They're gleefully derided in the RiffTrax.
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Future Spandex / int_72f08b60	type	Future Spandex
Future Spandex / int_72f08b60	comment	In Honkai Impact 3rd, several of the Valkyries' battlesuits, especially the MECH-type suits such as Kiana's White Comet and Himeko's Scarlet Fusion, are extremely form-fitting and spandex-like, starkly contrasting other battlesuits and outfits worn by the same characters which are much more like regular clothing, old-style armor, and military uniforms.
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Future Spandex / int_73d7930f	type	Future Spandex
Future Spandex / int_73d7930f	comment	Children in the Next Generation era always seem to be wearing color-blocked spandex outfits. Jake Sisko on DS9 modeled them until his teenage years, when he switched to more normal-looking things.
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Star Trek: Deep Space Nine	hasFeature	Future Spandex / int_73d7930f
Future Spandex / int_76e539c2	type	Future Spandex
Future Spandex / int_76e539c2	comment	And in Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha StrikerS, the Numbers' skintight jumpsuits, in a blatant Shout-Out to Muv-Luv Alternative: Total Eclipse.
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Future Spandex / int_7832b74c	type	Future Spandex
Future Spandex / int_7832b74c	comment	Many gems in Steven Universe wear skin-tight clothes, though none have a full bodysuit—if only because almost none of them have full sleeves. For many this is based more on such clothes' associations with dancing (since gems perform literal Fusion Dances and Pearl is a Dance Battler), but the single-piece, sleeveless jumpsuits Peridot and Jasper wear are definitely a form of Space Clothes.
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Future Spandex / int_791f9a4a	type	Future Spandex
Future Spandex / int_791f9a4a	comment	Bubblegum Crisis. The Knight Sabers, underneath their power suits, wear form-fitting outfits. It's also justified, as it's explained that the outfits serve as a neural interface between the user and the suit.
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Future Spandex / int_7ab10627	type	Future Spandex
Future Spandex / int_7ab10627	comment	Star Trek: The Motion Picture has this in spades. The main cast threatened to quit if they didn't get rid of them seeing how not everyone looked good in them. Plus, the spandex costumes were hard to get into and out of, requiring the help of assistants every time the actors needed to use the bathroom, hence the uniform change in the rest of the Star Trek movies.
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Future Spandex / int_81692f99	type	Future Spandex
Future Spandex / int_81692f99	comment	The Star Trek series have a few examples. The Next Generation uses this in the first two seasons before phasing them out because they were so form-fitting that they were a health and safety hazard; Patrick Stewart had to seek a doctor because they were playing hell with his back, and they were also extremely hot and uncomfortable under the studio lights. Star Trek: Voyager used this with Seven of Nine. For obvious reasons. Ron D. Moore, in his brief stint writing for the show, commented that it was like having a nudist seated at the briefing table and handing out tactical instructions. The outfit had to be glued on with individual pieces ("That woman knows me way too intimately", Jeri Ryan spoke of her stalwart wardrobe assistant) and caused the actress to pass out a few times from lack of blood flow/oxygen. Makes those TOS miniskirts look like an Amish community, doesn't it? Children in the Next Generation era always seem to be wearing color-blocked spandex outfits. Jake Sisko on DS9 modeled them until his teenage years, when he switched to more normal-looking things.
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Future Spandex / int_8df5521b	type	Future Spandex
Future Spandex / int_8df5521b	comment	Superman: Many depictions of Krypton run with this idea. Occasionally, they even go for the route that Superman's costume is designed after a traditional Kryptonian outfit.
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Future Spandex / int_90a3a7f4	type	Future Spandex
Future Spandex / int_90a3a7f4	comment	Kim Possible: When time-travelling shenanigans result in Kim and Ron having to save the world from Shego who has become a dictator, everybody not in La RÃ©sistance is forced to wear jumpsuits in her signature colour. Kim's battle suit is a visual Shout-Out to the original TRON suits.
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Future Spandex / int_93a81b11	type	Future Spandex
Future Spandex / int_93a81b11	comment	Spoofed in the sci-fi themed "Close Encounters" DLC for Two Point Hospital, where one of the comedic diseases, "Science Friction", has patients stuck permanently in shiny skin-tight jumpsuits, in danger of being eroded away completely by the terrible chafing they cause!
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Future Spandex / int_a4a6b86a	type	Future Spandex
Future Spandex / int_a4a6b86a	comment	Played with in Code Geass. The Black Knight pilots get to wear some form-fitting spandex-like suits, but many Britannians wear their dress uniforms when inside Knightmare Frames.
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Future Spandex / int_a4c36b62	type	Future Spandex
Future Spandex / int_a4c36b62	comment	In PlanetSide 2, the Vanu Sovereignty's soldiers are infamous for wearing form-fitting spandex. Most classes have varying amounts of metal armor over vulnerable spots, such as the Engineer carrying an armored backpack, and an armored right wrist. Additionally, all the Infiltrators armors from both games have form-fitting spandex regardless of empire, though the Composite Armor cosmetic item in Planetside 2 adds armor to make them look like some sort of cyber-samurai.
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Future Spandex / int_b24f49ab	type	Future Spandex
Future Spandex / int_b24f49ab	comment	Back to the Future Part II features this in its 2015 scenes. Of note: a woman leaving the Cafe 80s, making Marty do a Double Take and Griff's female gang member Spike.
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Future Spandex / int_b3710357	type	Future Spandex
Future Spandex / int_b3710357	comment	TRON is a particularly noteworthy example, as is the sequel, TRON: Legacy. Justified due to the setting being Inside a Computer System and No Flow in CGI. Expanded Universe and Alternate Continuity material show a bit more variance; robes, sashes, and sometimes heavy looking armor.
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Future Spandex / int_bafe0888	type	Future Spandex
Future Spandex / int_bafe0888	comment	The Disney Channel's Zenon, a sci-fi movie set in 2049 AD, has many of its characters wearing spandex and other form-fitting materials.
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Future Spandex / int_bc274933	type	Future Spandex
Future Spandex / int_bc274933	comment	In 3-2-1 Penguins!, Zidgel, Midgel, Fidgel, and Kevin all wear orange skintight jumpsuits. Enforced, in that the low-budget computer animation wouldn't be able to depict looser clothing.
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Future Spandex / int_bcadd7cb	type	Future Spandex
Future Spandex / int_bcadd7cb	comment	In the more recent Dark Heresy series of Warhammer 40,000 RPGs by Fantasy Flight Games, Synskin has been changed to 'a bio-reactive bodyglove with an inert non-reflective surface that molds itself to the wearer's form'. In other words, it isn't literally sprayed on anymore, though it's still Future Spandex.
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Future Spandex / int_bd310eaa	type	Future Spandex
Future Spandex / int_bd310eaa	comment	El Goonish Shive: In their native culture, pretty much the only clothes Uryuoms wear are stretchy skintight bodysuits (they're shapeshifters and can morph away awkward anatomy when it's not in use, so they only wear clothing for protection against hazards and need clothes that can accommodate sudden changes in size and shape).
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Future Spandex / int_c43df4d8	type	Future Spandex
Future Spandex / int_c43df4d8	comment	Doctor Who had this in certain stories, especially in the late sixties: The human guest characters in "The Ice Warriors" all wear catsuits with circuit-diagram like patterns. Zoe's famous glittery catsuit from "The Mind Robber" and "The Invasion". "The Seeds of Death" has everyone in hideously ugly form-fitting jumpsuits that make all the guest characters look like diaper fetishists.
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Future Spandex / int_c55e2d7d	type	Future Spandex
Future Spandex / int_c55e2d7d	comment	In one of the books from the Level 4 series, the protagonists find themselves in the year 2049, where people wear garishly-colored, transparent full body suits (with only the most private area being covered) so they cannot hide weapons under their clothing.
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Future Spandex / int_d25037f5	type	Future Spandex
Future Spandex / int_d25037f5	comment	Greg Mandel Trilogy: The combat suits used to radiate heat from Energy Weapons away from the wearer look like a diving suit.
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Future Spandex / int_d4f6f3fb	comment	F-Zero plays with this a bit. While a large percentage of the cast is decked out in skin-tight spandex and latex, more than a handful of characters are instead shown wearing sleek armor (if not both). Others, in fact, sport attire not too different from present-day fashion trends.
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Future Spandex / int_dca6d756	comment	In Poster Girl the main character Sonya Kantor observes a young woman wearing an outfit like this, noting that under the old regime clothing like this was considered a gros indecency and would be heavily punished.
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Future Spandex / int_e081af79	comment	The Inexplicable Adventures of Bob! — The insectoid Nemesites seem to favor skintight bodysuits leaving their arms and legs bare â€”Â even when they're disguised as humans.
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Future Spandex / int_e863cc41	comment	All of the human-looking NetNavis in Mega Man Battle Network have this. In fact, according to the Complete Works the designers were expressly forbidden from having Navi characters wear any kind of cloth in order to reinforce the futuristic cyberworld vibe. The sole major exception is Bass.EXE with his Badass Cape, thanks to sheer Rule of Cool.
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Future Spandex / int_ef076a36	comment	Star Trek: Voyager used this with Seven of Nine. For obvious reasons. Ron D. Moore, in his brief stint writing for the show, commented that it was like having a nudist seated at the briefing table and handing out tactical instructions. The outfit had to be glued on with individual pieces ("That woman knows me way too intimately", Jeri Ryan spoke of her stalwart wardrobe assistant) and caused the actress to pass out a few times from lack of blood flow/oxygen. Makes those TOS miniskirts look like an Amish community, doesn't it?
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Future Spandex / int_ef7b3325	comment	Fantastic Four: When the Fantastic Four started the Future Foundation, they started wearing white spandex with black piping, as did their pupils- that included Spider-Man (though he only wore it when appearing specifically in that title, presumably giving him a chance to air out his standard red-and-blue).
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Future Spandex / int_ef8a0d36	comment	Far Out There has Stilez spend most of her time running around in a very tight-fitting pink plugsuit. Alphonse's interface gear and Layla's containment suit are very form-fitting and futuristic, but they also have very... bulky extremities which disrupt the sleekness.
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Future Spandex / int_f01358c3	comment	Played with in The Time Machine (2002). The protagonist travels from 1903 to 2030 and asks directions from a female bike rider who from his point of view is wearing Sensual Spandex (much to his discomfort) but we recognise as cycling clothes.
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Future Spandex / int_f04b4111	comment	Samus Aran's Zero Suit from Metroid. Similar to Tony Stark's outfit, it's to interface with her Power Suit.
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Future Spandex / int_f1360d68	comment	Mobile Fighter G Gundam: All of the pilots wear skin-tight bodysuits as part of the interface for their mobile suits. The substance is sort of like spandex, but they actually have transformation sequences (not always shown) that make it look like plastic wrap. Nearly all of the pilots are male, but there is one point where Rain goes through the process.
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Future Spandex / int_f3ff4a44	comment	On Automan, it's easy to see that Automan is something different because he's dressed up in sparkly Future Spandex.
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Future Spandex / int_f724b70d	comment	In Code Lyoko Season 4, the new Digital Avatars of the heroes — boys and girls alike — have a serious Future Spandex look. Being virtual costumes, they don't have to be realistic... but still, they're supposedly designed by JÃ©rÃ©mie, a 13-year-old Teen Genius (except for William, who got his custom-made by XANA). You have to wonder what was going through their minds... (though on the other hand, maybe that makes it a Justified Trope).
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Future Spandex / int_ff9ab17f	comment	The Next Generation uses this in the first two seasons before phasing them out because they were so form-fitting that they were a health and safety hazard; Patrick Stewart had to seek a doctor because they were playing hell with his back, and they were also extremely hot and uncomfortable under the studio lights.
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